Four WMM filmmakers took home EMMY wins last week at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards!
- THE JANES (dir. Emma Pildes and co-directed by WMM Production Assistance Program alum Tia Lessin)
Winner: Best Documentary and Best Social Issue Documentary
Additional Nominations include: “Outstanding Research: Documentary,” and “Outstanding Direction: Documentary.” - ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES (co-directed by WMM Production Assistance Program alum Alysa Nahmias)
Winner: Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary - The Flagmakers (dir. Production Assistance Program alum Cynthia Wade)
Winner: Outstanding Short Documentary - Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (co-directed by WMM filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir & Sam Pollard)
Winner: Outstanding Research
A big congratulations also to the 7 additional WMM films and filmmakers who were nominated:
- WMM Release TIKTOK, BOOM. (dir.Shalini Kantaya)
Nomination: Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary - WMM Release APART (dir. Jennifer Redfearn)
Nomination: Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary - Production Assistance Program film NOTHING COMPARES (dir. by Kathryn Ferguson)
Nominations: Outstanding Writing: Documentary, Outstanding Direction: Documentary - BODY PARTS — directed by WMM filmmaker Kristy Guevera-Flanagan (WONDER WOMEN, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER, and MOTHERTIME)
Nomination: Outstanding Music Composition - AFTERSHOCK (dir. WMM filmmaker Paula Eiselt (93QUEEN)
Nomination: Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking - JUDY BLOOM FOREVER (co-directed by Production Assistance Program Alum Davina Pardo)
Nominations: Outstanding Direction for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special - PRETTY BABY (co-directed by Production Assistance Program Alum Lana Wilson)
Nominations: Outstanding Direction for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
